James MacGregor Burns Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by James MacGregor Burns:

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
~James MacGregor Burns


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/james-macgregor-burns-quotes/#4c7f6e8e

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
~James MacGregor Burns


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/james-macgregor-burns-quotes/#d034d609

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
~James MacGregor Burns


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/james-macgregor-burns-quotes/#410f216d

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
~James MacGregor Burns


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/james-macgregor-burns-quotes/#09f504e7

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
~James MacGregor Burns


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/james-macgregor-burns-quotes/#a8755d8e

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